Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never helped or joined in any of the village activities and had ignored all the signs that a war was approaching . |
| 2 | His blood vessels dilated or contracted in different parts of his body . |
| 3 | Neither of them moved or spoke for several minutes . |
| 4 | Blue light , and silver and bronze , streamed and bounced and danced through tall windows . |
| 5 | His canonry was not of Oxford but of Kobe , of the Anglican Church in Japan , but it was the Oxford Diocesan Clergy Cricket side which he captained and ran for 25 years . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's this fellow doing here ? ’ she shouted , puffing out her hastily improvised dark veil which rose and fell with each indignant gasp . |
| 7 | The lamp , a psychedelic icon , contained a brightly coloured waxy substance which rose and fell in strange blobs . |
| 8 | The Scarabae rose and went like some collective creature , some sort of amoeba with Ruth its glowing heart , into the drawing room . |
| 9 | He knew that the archer would have to load and winch his bow , so he rose and ran with all his force , clearing the trees , almost breathless as he stumbled up the muddy causeway leading to the main abbey gate . |
| 10 | Even though , forged before the introduction of recoil mechanism , they bounced back and had to be relaid after each shot just like cannon of the Napoleonic era , the elderly French 155s cracked and thundered with remarkable accuracy . |
| 11 | The fact that three of these families had been moderately wealthy in Palestine and had managed to acquire the same social status in their exile — that they behaved and looked like millions of middle-class couples in Europe , or indeed in Israel — only compounded my error . |
| 12 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |
| 13 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 14 | They stopped and looked at each other and James laughed . |
| 15 | We stopped and looked at each other , then shook hands . |
| 16 | He stopped with his hands full of water ; it dripped and fell in little runnels on the earth , but he did not notice . |
| 17 | After taking the final Examination the following year he trained and worked for six months as an Assistant Solicitor with a general practice in Hull . |
| 18 | Sheet by acid-sprayed sheet , 144 pieces of a huge jigsaw of tubes and angles beeped and fluttered from four laser facsimile machines in Sir Titus Salt 's former alpaca mill , while at his home in California Hockney — already master of computer , photocopy , and snipped-photograph art — was feeding the composite picture into his own fax . |
| 19 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |
| 20 | The first delivery of post came and went on that fateful day , no letter . |
| 21 | Tenants came and went with great rapidity . |
| 22 | Wycliffe said that he did , which was something of a record , for Franks 's secretaries came and went with bewildering frequency , though all were to a common stamp . |
| 23 | Tributers , who raised the actual ore , came and went with more freedom . |
| 24 | Ten Tory MPs who came and went in mysterious circumstances |
| 25 | The forms of criminal or lawless activity which have followed the civil rights movement which came and went in 1969–71 will disappear as and when there is a general conviction that there is going to be one society and one particular sort of society in Northern Ireland — that is to say , one state , one particular sort of state , and no other . |
| 26 | Three presidents came and went in those turbulent times . |
| 27 | Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror . |
| 28 | The route was taking her over a highway that twisted and turned across central North Island mountain ranges where the air was fresh and clear . |
| 29 | Dunlin twisted and turned in fast-weaving silvery flocks . |
| 30 | The supernatant was transferred to a glass gas liquid chromatography vial ( Chromacol Ltd , London , UK ) dried and resuspended in 200 µl hexane . |